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Re: Why would you upgrade...

From Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.debian, alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject Re: Why would you upgrade...
Date 2014-09-23 07:40 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <lvs0p3$opf$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <lvqnid$r00$1@dont-email.me> <rgk7fb-etg.ln1@pc.home>

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On 09/23/2014 12:36 AM, Hactar wrote:
> In article <lvqnid$r00$1@dont-email.me>,  <not.socialnetwork@gmail.com> wrote:
>> and punish yourself, with futile re-re-re-learning?
>>
>> My mate's Win*** has got a nice manageble speed mouse;
>> altho' he only needs it to point at cartoons.
>>
>> I need to discriminate the colon in "x:y" in proportional font!
>>
>> So it took me an hour to track down HOW2 slow-down gpm.
>>
>> But then there's X.
>> So I dug-out the BIG-file that I'd started last year: SlowMouse
>>
>> `pstree` shows you <which processes you're using for X>
>> For me its: ---startx(3705)---xinit(3721)-+-X(3722)
>>                         `-blackbox(3727)
>> ...which after a looong journey leads to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> and `man xorg.conf`
>>
>> My /etc/X11/xorg.conf has got
>> Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
>>   but man xorg.conf has no mention of ZAxis
>
> GIYF: searching for |zaxismapping| gives "About 143,000 results (0.23 seconds)"
>
> The answer is out there.
>
>> Imagine, every time you 'upgrade' you must suffer this punishment.
>>
>> Little wonder that people just use M$loth & KFC?
>
> Because they're lazy and don't know how to use Google?
>

	Lazy maybe not.  But poor language skills can
lead to hesitance in using Google along with arcane
computer jargon in which relatively few are conversant.

	They have no problems with finding cute pictures of
kitty-cats but "cat" confuses them no end.

	bliss

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Why would you upgrade... not.socialnetwork@gmail.com - 2014-09-23 02:57 +0000
  Re: Why would you upgrade... ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2014-09-23 03:36 -0400
    Re: Why would you upgrade... Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-09-23 07:40 -0700
  Re: Why would you upgrade... MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2014-09-24 17:30 +0000
  Re: Why would you upgrade... Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2014-09-24 18:57 +0000
    Re: Why would you upgrade... Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-09-24 21:17 +0200
      Re: Why would you upgrade... Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-10-01 11:51 +0000
        Re: Why would you upgrade... Michael Baeuerle <michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> - 2014-10-01 12:12 +0000
    Re: Why would you upgrade... Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-09-24 13:33 -0700

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